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The Rachel Incident

The Rachel Incident

O'Donoghue, Caroline

Hardcover

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0593535707
ISBN13: 9780593535707
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jun 27 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Young and broke in Cork city as the great recession engulfs Ireland, Rachel and James become friends working at a bookstore, then roommates, then co-conspirators in a series of secrets and misadventures. Aching with the joy and pain of finding yourself in young adulthood, The Rachel Incident will make you simultaneously yearn for your youth and count your blessings to be past it. Funny, voicey, and subtly surprising, Caroline O'Donoghue's adult debut is an absolute stunner! -Annie

 

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three - O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications. --People

If you've ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you've ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time...In short, if you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did. --Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.

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